Chicago cemeteries: people are dying to live across from them?
Our last post on the new development Rainbo Village, 4836 N Clark St, pointed out the great location in Uptown. We didn't mention that it sits across [...]
The land of high-end rentals: $13,000 a month in the Gold Coast
Sure, your rent for the whole year is probably less than the one-month price tag of $13,000 for the townhome at 1242 N Astor Pl, listed by Koenig & S [...]
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Houses on Leland Avenue in Lincoln Square (August 2003). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Ravenswood photos available in our Ravenswood photo gallery.
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Stay far away from this hell hole
That's the advice from one Horizon Realty Group tenant at ApartmentRatings.
If other tenant reports are to be believed, Horizon will lie to you, boot [...]
Chicago's narrowest alley
Your Lincoln Navigator and H1 Hummer are 13.5 and 17.5 inches wider than the car pictured. Feeling lucky today?
This strait is just south of Belmon [...]
A mural only a mother can love
Up against this wall, mother!
See Leanne Raney's take on this Chipotle mural at Yo Chicago's Lake View journal. [...]
Broadway zoning debate settled in Edgewater
Just in from Killian at Yo's Edgewater journal: After close to two years of study, debate and grassroots referenda the 48th Ward Zoning and Planning C [...]
Helmut Jahn's street of cool
Construction is underway at 600 North Fairbanks, where future occupants are already talking about living "in a Jahn." [...]
Kenilworth and Doo Wop Motels
What does the Village of Kenilworth, Chicago's priciest North Shore community, have in common with Wildwood, New Jersey's Doo Wop Motels?
Well, a [...]
Woman attacked in Lincoln Park garden apartment
We've talked before about the potential hazards of living in a garden apartment but the issue really hit home with the report this week about the woma [...]
Is Rainbo Village homes trying to tell us something?
If rainbows are symbols of the celebration of diversity, and that YMCA song was sung by the Village People, who exactly is the target buyer for the co [...]
New construction deals for real estate agents
A couple of days ago we called attention to the proliferation of financing and option incentives that home builders are offering buyers.
We're also s [...]
Mr. T takes Conan to Legends South site
Last night was Late Night with Conan O'Brien's first show at the Chicago Theatre. To explore the Windy City, Conan enlisted Chicago native and fashion [...]
Mommy and Daddy are at work in Skokie
While seeking out interesting photo opportunities recently for New Homes' Skokie profile, I walked into Chuck E. Cheese's at Village Crossing, and ask [...]
More than you ever wanted to know about Bridgeport
We usually can't stomach much of New City's content, but there's some entertaining insight into Da Mayor's old stomping grounds of Bridgeport in thi [...]
Fire in 28-story Uptown high-rise
One woman was taken to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation after this morning's Uptown highh-rise fire, according to media reports. Fire bro [...]
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Irving Park (August 1999). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Irving Park photos available in our Irving Park photo gallery.
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Pensack still a sad sack
I chanced upon the Web site for the Illinois Tenants Union, and note that it's still being run by Michael Pensack, who's apparently completed some sch [...]
Off-Broadway loft project and theater company opening soon in Edgewater
The brick building that once housed an industrial laundry called Zengler's Cleaners at 5427 N Broadway St, in Edgewater, is being converted into the 2 [...]
Humans, ghosts welcome at Kedzie Square
Yo has its ear to the street, let me tell you. Yesterday we gave you the heads-up about 565 Quincy, which will see eleven stories of new construction [...]